Talk:Spanish/Lessons/Introducción a la gramática

what discussion
the exercises begin as usual with a request to translate the discussion at the beginning of the chapter but the discussion is missing - can one of the original writers fill it in?

what is feminine
In the below quotation, I can't help but believe that the wording is not suggesting what the author intended. If it's supposed to say what I think it's supposed to say, shouldn't it be "Do not try to figure out what is "feminine" about a table, it doesn't work that way."

We can indeed figure out what is feminine about the word mesa, it's explained in the third sentence (ending in -a). So the word "mesa" can clearly be seen to be feminine, but a table perhaps cannot be. I think this is true for many of the words I have encountered in Spanish and I do believe the "the word mesa" should be replaced with "a table" here.

== Articles[edit | edit source] == As in many languages, every noun in Spanish has a gender: it is either masculine or feminine. For example, gato ("cat") is masculine and mesa (table) is feminine. Almost all nouns ending in -o are masculine, most words ending in -a are feminine. The gender of unliving things is arbitrary and must be memorized, or looked up. Do not try to figure out what is "feminine" about the word mesa; it doesn't work that way. 65.39.105.15 (discuss) 22:50, 19 September 2023 (UTC)